Return-Path: X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) id h1JJjuo23374 for ips-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:45:56 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: ece.cmu.edu: majordom set sender to owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu using -f Received: from lion.ninthwonder.com (lion.ninthwonder.com [151.199.66.147]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1JJjnW23362 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:45:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by lion.ninthwonder.com (Postfix, from userid 1021) id 157CE30706; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:45:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:38:11 +0000 (UTC) From: wrstuden@wasabisystems.com X-X-Sender: wrstuden@ To: Andre Hedrick Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu, ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Protocol Action: iSCSI to Proposed Standard In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote: > This would not logically include ignoring the rule about everything put to > the wire must be "BIG ENDIAN"? Obviously everyone knows to ignore this > ruleset when dealing with CRC32C; however, if you are a "BIG ENDIAN" box > you must conform to make your CRC32C put on the wire in "LITTLE ENDIAN". > > Of course this is me being picky about following the rules. Funny you would mention that. The CRC32C actually DOES go out in a Big-Endian manner, in terms of the CRC polinomial powers. It is just that the polinomial powers have bit 7 (2^0) as being more significant than bit 0 (2^7). Take care, Bill